Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. Susan Sontag awashcausalitydisease Change image and share on social
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Susan Sontag daydependprecisely Change image and share on social
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Susan Sontag alienauthoritariandisease Change image and share on social
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. Susan Sontag defenseelementarylie Change image and share on social
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Susan Sontag forminescapablyremain Change image and share on social
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. Susan Sontag capitalismconnoisseurexpansion Change image and share on social
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Susan Sontag exhaustionhistoryman Change image and share on social
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. Susan Sontag artdisasterfiction Change image and share on social
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. Susan Sontag answerdestroyinterest Change image and share on social
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. Susan Sontag aimanalogyart share on social